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From: naomi@gtx.com (Naomi Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: GETTYDEFS, etc. (babbling getty)
Message-ID: <547@gtx.com>
Date: 27 Jan 88 20:54:47 GMT
References: <142@mccc.UUCP> <564@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <10321@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: naomi@gtx.UUCP (Naomi Walker)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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In article <10321@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <564@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> scl@virginia.acc.virginia.edu
>(Steve Losen) writes:
>>If you want to use the modem for both dialout and dialin good luck.  It is
>>possible, but it is not at all trivial to do.
>
>It *is* trivial *if* your vendor has provided reasonable kernel
>support.  Sun does, at least in SunOS 3.4.  I modified 4.1, 4.2,
>and now 4.3 BSD to do it.  It is wonderful to be able simply to
>point the dialout programs at /dev/dialXX and the getty at /dev/ttyXX
>and have everything work.
>
>
Sun supports some modems, but not all. Though things may have changed,
I tried evrything and every person I could think of to make our Hayes
modems work bi-directionally. We finally ended up buying a US Robotics
modem, which solved all our problems (though EXPENSIVE), because it was
supported. 



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